SKOPE NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Shocking, hilarious, and always refreshing, Julian Rhine–Brooklyn born & raised artist and board game enthusiast–is here to share his story of Love, Romance & eventual Heartbreak when your girl leaves you
….for a girl.

A songwriter at heart, Julian Rhine plays loud, punk guitar riffs, raps like a machine gun, and sings mellifluously. His imaginative, fun pop beats and emotionally charged, honest, witty lyrics are a welcome change from the re-hashed, mashed-up pop scene of today. The artist speaks his mind, his heart, and his b*lls.

Emerging from the Tel Aviv underground, now based in Brooklyn, O Mer is a multi genre composer. Filling the role of singer, guitarist, beat maker, producer, O Mer’s music is distinctly his own.

This week O Mer shares a brand new single, the synth-laden “Now I’m Alive.” In creating the track, O Mer tells NYLON he “tried to think musically and lyrically in terms of opposites derived from each other, emphasize the way silence and noise are caused by one another.”

“Tearing Me Up” maintains a steady bass line and subtle percussion that make listeners nod their heads. Slaptop took the pair’s melodic track and brought in new dimensions that elevates the head nodding to dancing.” – Interview Magazine

In this exclusive interview, Fetty talks about why he’ll never wear a prosthetic eye, sharing a stage with Chris Brown, and the insanity of his rapid rise to fame. “I never knew I could sing… that was the last thing on my mind,” shares Fetty early on in the piece. We get an inside look at Fetty’s rise to fame, as his friends and crew look back on the year that changed their lives. LNTV also gets on-stage for a dynamic Fetty Wap show at Los Angeles’ Honda Center.

Mumford & Sons are coming back to the US starting April 3 playing Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Space City itself, Houston (we don’t have a problem), Texas. The four piece will be polishing off their tin stars as they go a-ridin’ into town, a-whompin’ and a-whumpin’ through Texas, the South and then shows in Midwest.

Says the band’s Ben Lovett, “Touring the United States of America in many ways fulfills the childhood dream of what touring might be like. Rolling from one great city to the next, each with its own personality and uniqueness whilst remaining familiar enough at the same time. Waking up every morning with a conversation amongst us about who wants to visit “that” bookshop or “the” ultimate music shop or whatever the various cities had to offer.”

LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD TEAM UP WITH JOHN CONLEE FOR NEW VIDEO

Crowd favorites Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road continue to bring their hard-driving bluegrass sound to audiences nationwide with their new music video for “Common Man,” featuring Grand Ole Opry star John Conlee, debuting exclusively on The Boot. “Common Man” is available now through digital retailers on Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road’s latest album, Country Grass.

After topping the Billboard country charts in 1983, “Common Man,” originally recorded by Conlee, takes on new life by the bluegrass band. “It was nice to be able to do a bluegrass version of one of my songs, and I really enjoyed working with Lorraine on the project,” Conlee said. “I understand it has gotten a lot of positive feedback since it has been out, and that is really encouraging to me.”

RIGHTEOUS REPROBATES NEW SINGLE

The creation of Righteous Reprobates is the culmination of Rob’s effectively life-long obsession with music, and the belief that there should be good quality Rock – with plenty of hooks and tunes – for people to hear and enjoy. Merging elements of Britpop and the modern rock of bands like Oasis, Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian with classic rock from the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Pink Floyd, Righteous Reprobates have developed their own unique sound and aesthetic which is very exciting, interesting and engaging. “Give me something sweet and moreish I can chew” sings Rob (in ‘My Psychosis’) – and this is just what RR have done!

MAT SHOARE SHARES FIRST SINGLE VIA BULLETT MEDIA

Kansas City, MO-based emotive singer/songwriter Mat Shoare is pleased to announce his latest EP, Memory Music No1, available January 28, 2016. “This is a small collection of tunes that were mostly made during the sessions for my last album, Right As Rain,” Shoare explains. “I felt that these songs didn’t quite fit in with the concept of that album and then hearing them all together I thought they made a nice little set of songs.” To celebrate the release, Shoare is sharing the record’s first single “One of My Songs” via Bullett Media.

Garage punk outfit St. Tropez have revealed their latest single Son Of God. The track, mixed by Spring King’s Tarek Musa, is about self-sufficiency in a context of faith and asceticism, stating we have to save ourselves instead of seeking salvation in religion and serves as the perfect conclusion to what has been a highly successful year for the Dutch band.

NEW ALBUM / SINGLE FROM SANTIGOLD

Santigold has announced that she will release her third album, 99¢, on January 22nd via Atlantic Records. The first single, “Can’t Get Enough of Myself (feat. B.C.)” is available now at all digital retailers and as an instant grat with select album preorders.

“Letting You In” is the second single from Mid Ayr, a project created by Hugh Middleton while on tour playing in The Trouble With Templeton in 2014.

Touching on some very personal themes, the video for new single “Letting You In” takes the themes of the song and beautifully brings them to life. The band knew a standard clip wouldn’t suffice and wanted something that would beautifully convey the themes of love, loss, and spiraling into insanity after losing someone you love. Rather than settle of something easy and predictable, the band enlisted the help of their long-time friend Luke Constable to answer an interesting question – what if we used puppets?

Folsom, California Hard Rock / Heavy Metal band Heat Of Damage have released their “Judgment Day” music video from their debut album Open Fire which is available for purchase now on iTunes. The video for “Judgement Day” was filmed at Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California and was edited by Matt Thomas.

GIRLI DEBUT VIDEO

The most exciting new talent to emerge from London as of late, new kid on the block GIRLI releases her debut video for new single, ‘So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya’.

Brand new yet already infiltrating the music world with her exciting, frenzied flurry of what can only be described as “urban cyber-electronic sugar dance pop”, GIRLI has kicked in the doors of the musical underground this year with her do-it-yourself, punk-like attitude and explosively unforgettable live sets across the city.

DEAD CEREMONY NEW SINGLE

Today sees Kent-based 4 piece Dead Ceremony reveal their new single ‘Seventeen’, along with the announcement that their debut EP ‘Tell Me Lies’ is set for release in Spring 2016.

The shape shifting creative collective that swirls around prolific Swedish group Peter Bjorn & John has something of the quality of an artistic commune of the mind – they even run a label, INGRID, with Lykke Li. One of the most notable ongoing concerns is Hortlax Cobra, led by PB&J drummer John Eriksson (for the record, Hortlax is a tiny town in Sweden). It is a decidedly more electro slanted project.

ONErpm (ONE Revolution People’s Music), has launched a robust analytics suite that pulls data daily from the major digital music and social media platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to help measure the impact of social marketing on music sales, streams, and audience growth. This powerful tool is provided at no additional cost to ONErpm’s 27,000 artists, labels, and YouTube creators globally.

Within the analytics dashboard, artists and labels can track activity by album, YouTube channel, and country over specified time periods and chart Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram new page followers (and unfollows) for the same periods. The daily reports integrate a greater level of intelligence into ONErpm’s system. By equipping artists and creators with these insights, they can see how their social media strategy correlates to their success on digital music platforms in real time. If there isn’t a direct correlation, they can adjust their strategy. Additional features rolling out soon include more expansive social tracking to capture other types of engagement such as comments and shares.

Big Harp released Waveless via Portland-based tape label Majestic Litter. Big Harp’s third album follows the limited edition single “It’s A Shame” and marks a complete sea change in the band’s approach. Gone are the slow-burners and lyrically driven songs which can be found on their earlier albums. In their place are big, fuzzed-out riffs and scruffy pop melodies floating over sneakily complicated timings and changes. The exuberance and fuck-it-just-do-it-ness carries over to the release itself — the album is coming out only a month or so after most of the songs were recorded. Free from the typical cycle of record – wait a year and a half – tour – write – repeat, Waveless is by far Big Harp’s most immediate recording. The album is available now digitally and on cassette in the Majestic Litter online store.

Brooklyn based electro-pop quartet Hello Phones proudly present their first video and single “Streetwave” from their upcoming E.P Tripping The Light, set for release February 2016. Recommended for those who like The Kills, Chromatics and Yeah Yeah Yeahs circa Fever To Tell, Hello Phones have been garnering much attention for their undeniably catchy brand of vintage electronic pop, leading SSYFAL to exclaim “They have managed to capture the sound of the late 70s/early 80s New York of legend without sounding like derivative re-treads.”

Yassou Yassou have become favorites out of certain music fans recently by pivoting on how a band releases media to the world. Bypassing the “album” format, and understanding that we see music more than we hear it these days, the Bay Area group are in the home stretch of releasing five music videos, all different and striking, and leading with that as content.

ARI NICOLE “YA KNOW”

Arí Nicole is a Singer-Songwriter and Model who was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Imagine the fun-loving groove of Lauryn Hill, the sensual styles of Janet Jackson and the sweet tone of Aaliyah all wrapped in one voice.

At the age of 14 Arí Nicole began dancing in high school and continued throughout her college years. It was in 2009 that she fell in love with modeling. She moved to New York City at the age of 20 years old to pursue a career in fashion and entertainment. ​Shortly after Arí Nicole appeared in Fitness Magazine, Today’s Black Woman Magazine and multiple issues of Hype Hair Magazine.​

VALLEE “JUNGLE”

The follow up to their first EP Radio sees the band release their new single “Jungle”. The title track off their first EP Radio reached #1 on the Triple J Unearthed charts and subsequent video was featured on mismatch.tv, whilst second single “Cuba” debuted at #9 and received airplay on Unearthed radio.

FRAMEWORKS RELEASES SINGLE “BRANCHES”

Matthew Brewer, aka Frameworks, first became a part of the Loci Records family after opening for Emancipator at a UK tour stop, who then asked him to lead off his Dusk To Dawn remix album with a version of the title track. After releasing his first full-length album Tides with First Word Records earlier this year, and Brewer has returned to Loci for the release of his ‘Branches’ EP later this month.

JAMES BAY RETURNS FOR US TOUR

JAMES BAY’s full-length debut album, Chaos and the Calm [Republic Records], is already the “Biggest Album Release This Year” in the UK and has been certified Gold in Australia & Switzerland, Platinum in the UK and has sold one over million albums worldwide. Now, he’s returning to the U.S. for a headlining fall tour which kicks off November 13 in Philadelphia, PA at The Fillmore. You can see the full itinerary below.

Alternative band, Reverist consisting of frontman and guitarist Omar Qazi, drummer Steve Addington and bassist Matthew Walsh, announced the release of their EP “Dreaming Onward” on October 9, 2015. The group recorded the EP at Parafonic Recording Studio and although their music fits into the alternative pop genre, it’s hard to pinpoint the exact style of Reverist. The band’s debut single “Superhero” possesses a unique sound with solid, rich vocals that will captivate a crowd and appeal to almost any mood. The new EP “Dreaming Onward” is now available at www.reverist.bandcamp.com and all major media outlets.

The Felice Brothers are pleased to announce Felice Navidad, a self-released digital EP of five new, original, Christmas-themed songs, available November 20. Pre-order now through The Felice Brothers store and receive an instant free download of the new song “Country Ham.” Digital downloads of the full EP are $5.00 and net proceeds from the sale of the EP will be donated to the Food Bank of The Hudson Valley. The band also performs at Foodstock 8, an annual charity concert benefitting the same food bank, on November 21 at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Experimental folk three-piece Wovoka Gentle have revealed a second cut from their new record Wovoka Gentle EP [Blue].

‘Piece Is Its Own Reward’ follows previous single ‘You Have Saved Our Lives, We Are Eternally Grateful’, and illustrates even more depth and flair within their songwriting.

ZHU PREMIERES OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR SKRILLEX COLLABORATION “WORKING FOR IT”

“Working For It” is part of ZHU’s critically acclaimed Genesis Series and is the last piece of his wildly popular and critically acclaimed body of work that features a stellar cast of collaborators including AlunaGeorge, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Daniel Johns, A-Trak, Gallant and many more. Last week, the elusive artist sent a note direct to his fans explaining his inspiration behind the Genesis Series.

Bay Area quartet SWMRS have announced that their debut album Drive North is due for release on February 12th, 2016 via Uncool Records. Noisey broke the news on Friday and premiered the band’s new single “Figuring it Out,” praising the track as a “poppy foot-tapper filled with skate-gang vocals.”

Teen pop darling Skyler has joined hip hop legend Snoop Dogg for her debut offering ‘Fire’. At the tender age of 16, Skyler is crafting dynamic pop hits way beyond her years inspired by the likes of Beyoncé and Christina Aguilera and bands The 1975, All Time Low and Blink-182. Her first collaboration with Snoop Dogg sets the bar pretty high and she is perfectly at ease with the prospect of stardom.

Lanz Pierce proudly premieres the video for her hit single “You Got It” from her sophomore EP, Editors Eye exclusively with SOHH.com – check it out HERE. Shot in New York City in summer 2015, Lanz explains the influence and thought process behind the video stating, “”You Got It” is self-confidence, it’s inner belief, it’s when you can walk in the room and own it. Not because you got nothing on, but because your aura is shining. “You Got It” is the effortless cool you ooze because you’re not worried about what anyone thinks.”

Here’s a new Le1f track for “Umami/Water” off his debut full length LP Riot Boi out this Friday via Terrible Records. Produced by Lunice on the Umami side and Evian Christ, Jake Aron, Boody and Le1f himself on the Water side you can check the track below via Complex and read the interview to see how Juliana Huxtable inspired part of the track.

After wrapping up the first leg of their album release tour, which included a buzzed-about run at NYC’s CMJ Music Marathon, Chicago indie rockers The Kickback have debuted the adventurous video for lead single “Sting’s Teacher Years” exclusively with Baeble Music. The premiere comes with a batch of winter shows alongside Quiet Company and news of a first-round announcement for SxSW 2016, all in continued support of the quartet’s debut album, Sorry All Over the Place, available now.

Speaking of the song’s provocative lyrics, lead vocalist Dorian Aites explains: “‘California’ is about mankind’s exploitation and misuse of the planet on which we live, how without serious, immediate change to our society on a global scale we will bring about the self-extermination of our species.”

Hot on the heels of the release of Holy ’57s new EP H, Holy ’57 premiered the video for their track Island Kids. Holy ’57 saw a significant amount of attention toward the single during the summertime – and it comes as no surprise with the wondrous beach-vibes, the track was bound to be a summer hit.

In order to keep those warm memories of summer as we start heading into colder weather, make sure to swing on by Northern Transmissions today and catch the the sun-soaked video of Island Kids.

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